Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber was a highly respected stage and screen actor whose deep voice and serious countenance lent itself well to playing intense, dramatic roles. He came to prominence in the late 1990s after...
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"I have a whiny baritone and Dustin is a whiny baritone; I sound like Dustin, and I think that's probably why they asked me to do the Kennedy Center Honors... Dustin's probably had a string of bad luck in the past couple of years and they couldn't get whoever they probably wanted to get, and they said, 'What about that guy?'" Liev Schreiber on why he was asked to pay tribute to Dustin Hoffman last year (12).

Movies that take place in the White House are usually focused on the President of the United States, but Lee Daniels' drama The Butler serves up a new perspective on the old location. Starring Forest Whitaker, Jane Fonda, and Oprah Winfrey (among a long list of Hollywood power players that make up the rest of the cast), the movie tells the story of Eugene Allen, the longtime White House employee who served under eight American presidents.
Allen was the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made. The Butler also stars Alex Pettyfer, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Melissa Leo, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, Terrance Howard, Minka Kelly as Jackie Kennedy, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Vanessa Redgrave.
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The Butler hits theaters October 18, 2013.
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Are you counting down the days, hours, and minutes until June 30? Well we most certainly are — because this is the highly anticipated day when the eighth (and most likely final) season of Dexter makes its killer debut.
Despite the fact that serial killer dramas have become the hot new thing — that’s right we’re looking at you Hannibal, and The Following! — Showtime is here to remind us that Dexter has been killing since long before it was cool. Way to be a trailblazer, Michael C. Hall!
The premium cable network just released a brand new teaser trailer for the Dark Passenger’s deadly antics this season, which also reveals a relationship-straining twist. While Dex is naturally feeling peachy keen about Laguerta’s death, (“The truth is it solved all my problems,” he muses) Deb is feeling an immense amount of remorse and regret.
While some fans were hoping that Deb’s first non-work-related kill would bring she and Dexter closer together, it certainly appears that it’s actually tearing them apart. “I shot the wrong person in that trailer,” she snars at Dex. “I don’t know why I thought I needed you, it was the other way around!”
Also premiering on June 30 is Showtime’s freshman drama Ray Donovan, starring Liev Schreiber as a “fixer” for the rich and famous who will make your problems — no matter how dark or disastrous — disappear.
Behold all the bad blood and new blood in the trailer below, and then take to the comments to share your thoughts about the two deadly dramas:
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ABC Sets Finale Dates: It's that time! ABC announced via release today the finales of its primetime offerings — March 27 we'll say goodbye to The Neighbors, April 17 Suburgatory, May 2 Wife Swap, May 5 Red Widow, May 7 Splash, May 12 Once Upon a Time and Revenge, May 13 Castle, May 16 Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, May 17 Shark Tank, May 19 America's Funniest Home Videos, May 21 Dancing With the Stars, May 22 The Middle, Modern Family, and Nashville, and May 28 Body of Proof.
It's Showtime for James Woods: James Woods has joined Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight in the new Showtime drama Ray Donovan, the network announced. The series will focus on Schreiber, a "fixer" who runs into trouble when his father (Voight) is released from prison. Woods will play a family friend.
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Star Goes Buckwild: MTV's newest reality show, Buckwild, features twentysomethings in rural West Virginia partying and doing reckless things. For star Salwa Amin, the self-proclaimed "Bengali in Boots," life may have just gotten a little too wild. The 24-year-old was arrested on Sunday in a drug raid outside of Charleston, West Virginia. Amin was taken into custody with two other men after an informant tipped off the drug task force that a shipment of narcotics would be delivered to a home. Officers found Amin and two other individuals hiding in a shed outside, and a search subsequently turned up a large quantity of Oxycodone in Amin's purse along with three bags of heroin in the shed. All three were arrested and arraigned on a charge of possession with intent to deliver. They remain in the county jail with bail set at $200,000. No word on how this will affect Amin’s slot in the just-announced second season of Buckwild. [E!]
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By now, you've seen obscene trailers and perplexing photos from the forthcoming Relativity Media film Movie 43. You've caught glimpses of an oafish Batman (Jason Sudeikis) and a gawky Robin (Justin Long), of a sordid dime store love affair between Emma Stone and Kieran Culkin, of an ill-conceived home schooling regime instituted by parents Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, and of a game of Truth or Dare gone horribly awry when competitors Halle Berry and Stephen Merchant take things a smidge too far... among many, many other odd sights.
And despite all that we've seen so far, we're still pretty in the dark about a lot of what the hell is going on in the trailers and pictures released by Relativity. In fact, since the film began sharing material, we've gathered more questions than we have answers. So, in preparation for the upcoming flick, and in honor of the unprecedented confusion inspired by this project's marketing team, we've gotten together all of our big queries (all 43... and yes, that is entirely a coincidence) about Movie 43. Feel free to chime in if you can solve any of these riddles.
1. First off, what exactly does “Movie 43” mean?
2. Is the title in any way connected to the phrase “Rule 43” (if you search for a long enough time, you can find anything on the Internet)?
3. Are there Movies 1 through 42?
4. Are any of them good?
5. Okay, so we know that this movie has Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Dennis Quaid, Richard Gere, Halle Berry… how did they get all these people to agree to do the movie?
6. Does Peter Farrelly have dirt on each of them?
7. Is he holding their loved ones hostage?
8. Maybe they’re just into this kind of comedy. Which brings us to the question: what kind of comedy is this?
9. We've heard mention of people with genitalia on their chins, self-pleasuring cats, and electronic devices that take the form of naked women. So, we're guessing pretty raunchy?
10. Is this one of those comedies that's just shock-for-the-sake-of-shock?
11. And considering all this disturbing material, we ask again: How did they get Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry on board?
12. Speaking of Kate Winslet, what's she up to in this movie?
13. Is she on a date with Hugh Jackman?
14. If so, why does she look so disgusted with him?
15. Does this have anything to do with the aforementioned chin genitalia?
16. And speaking of disgust, what's up with Elizabeth Banks?
17. Is she dating Josh Duhamel?
18. If so, why does she look so disgusted with him?
19. Does this have anything to do with the aforementioned self-pleasuring cat?
20. What else is going on with this movie?
21. Are Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber playing a married couple?
22. Aren't they married in real life?
23. Or are they just dating?
24. There seem to be a lot of things going on in this movie: superheroes, blind dates, leprechauns, basketball teams. Are they in any way connected?
25. If they're not related, then what's the deal?
26. Are they strung together like Looney Tunes clips?
27. Or maybe Paris, je t'aime vignettes?
28. Oh, I thought of another Winslet question. Can we go back to her?
29. Yes?
30. Thanks. Wikipedia lists her character's name as Juliet Hulme. Isn't that the character she played in Heavenly Creatures?
31. Is she playing the same character, or is it just a gag on the name?
32. Have you guys seen Heavenly Creatures?
33. Is it good?
34. Okay, back to Movie 43. Are Halle Berry and Stephen Merchant on a date in this movie?
35. Are all of these sketches about people on dates?
36. Isn't Emma Stone's sketch with one of the Culkins about the two of them on some kind of weird date?
37. Which Culkin is that?
38. Kieran?
39. Has he ever been in anything?
40. Did you know that Macaulay Culkin is a cast member on Robot Chicken?
41. Damnit, another tangent! And we only have three questions left to go! Um, um... so, is this movie going to stand out as a historic landmark of American culture, depicting the human condition with an unprecedented sincerity, illustrating with a valor beyond the likes of any Renaissance artist, civil rights musician, or the Bard himself the authentic plight of an individual's soul in this wayfaring hell we call life?
42. Are you sure?
43. What else is out this weekend?
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It's not that Movie 43 is shocking or "edgy " or whatever any of the writers or directors would like to convince you. If you want to actually puke or cry or be shocked you can go to Rotten.com like the rest of us Internet miscreants. The Cinema of Transgression films by Nick Zedd and Richard Kern have more artistic value than Movie 43 and are generally more interesting. Which is saying a lot because Zedd's films can get pretty boring. You can only see Annie Sprinkle make out with a man who's listed as Ray the Burn Victim for so long... although I feel terrible for writing because everyone needs love. Sorry Ray.
Movie 43 has 12 directors and 17 writers credited with this anthology of shorts modeled according to producers Peter Farrelly and Charlie Wessler in the spirit of Kentucky Fried Movie. Surprisingly none of those writers or directors go by the name Alan Smithee. It's not even totally clear which were written and directed by whom; the production notes are "hilarious first hand [sic] accounts from those who were a part of and were witnesses to the creation of MOVIE 43."
Kate Winslet and Halle Berry and Richard Gere were tricked into participating which is supposed to make their "outrageous" shorts all the more titillating. One of the larger problems of Movie 43 is that it relies on this handful of mega-stars and on our reactions to them and their off-screen personas all in lieu of genuine comedy onscreen. Would it be funny if some schmuck on YouTube played a Steve Jobs-like character who didn't understand why his company's iBabe music player — which looks like a naked woman but has a coolant system with a fan between its legs — was mangling users? No it wouldn't. And it's definitely not any funnier because it's Richard Gere playing him.
What's most offensive about Movie 43 isn't the scatological humor but how shoddily the whole thing was put together. (To be honest I did nearly walk out during the Anna Faris/Chris Pratt short about her desire to be pooped on. I also nearly barfed during Salo. Because poop.) In quite a few of the shorts half of the actors' heads are cut out of frame. Their heads are literally cut off of the screen in a movie that was professionally filmed by accredited cinematographers. Now it could have been the theater projecting the film that was having the problem but that's not really my concern. My concern was mainly that a handful of paying customers (including myself) were sitting through a studio movie where the top of actors' heads aren't in frame.
The self-referential wraparound for the movie is embarrassing for everyone involved including the viewer. Dennis Quaid plays a disheveled crazy writer who holds a studio exec (Greg Kinnear) hostage until the exec agrees to buy his movie pitch. His pitch is the series of shorts which the exec obviously thinks is a terrible idea... because it is. This is like adding insult to injury because the creators know what they've made is crap. Even the studio exec that they themselves wrote thinks the premise of Movie 43 is crap and has to be held at gunpoint to bring the idea to his boss. This idea that you will have wasted 90 minutes of your life on — minutes you could have spent watching YouTube videos of people squeezing their own cysts or having botflies removed from their bodies or yes making out with burn victims.
Complain all you like about stodgy critics who have no sense of humor and don't get "the kids" today and all that but it seems that Peter Farrelly and the group of people who forced this towards theaters (with little to no help from most of the stars or writers or directors) are the ones who are completely out of touch. With anything. Including humor.'s>

The three women all pose with bare faces for photographer Juergen Teller in his shoot for W magazine.
Twilight star Stewart is seen sporting heavy bags under her eyes and seemingly unwashed hair in her picture, while Cotillard, who is wearing just a towel, looks fresh-faced having just stepped out of the shower.
Kidman and her longtime friend Naomi Watts also posed without make-up for the shoot, and in the accompanying interview, the King Kong star insists she is rarely recognised in public when she sports a casual look.
She says, "I never get recognised on the street. I'm lucky that way. People see me as the dolled-up movie-star type on the red carpet, but in real life, I don't look anything like that. I blend easily into a crowd. My husband (sic), Liev Schreiber, is really distinct, and quite often people push me aside to get to him... They will then ask, 'Can you take a photo of us?' They have no idea who I am."
Male stars who went without air-brushing for the spread include Matthew McConaughey, who showed off a skeletal frame after slimming down to play an AIDS victim in new movie Dallas Buyers Club.
Daniel Day-Lewis posed in a casual outfit of a knitted sweater and jeans, Jarvier Bardem wore just a blanket and Philip Seymour Hoffman was seen wearing a beanie hat, dirty trousers and a weather-proof jacket.
Other stars featured in the shoot include Jack Black, Jessica Chastain and Keira Knightley.

The Australian actress plays a real-life survivor of the 2004 Asian tsunami and chose to live in a rebuilt apartment destroyed by the disaster with her partner Liev Schreiber and their children during the shoot.
It wasn't the fear of another tsunami that terrified the actress, but the thought of all the poisonous animals that could attack her kids.
She explains, "We were staying in this little kind of villa and before you would go in, you would take off your shoes and lay them in a basket.
"I came out (one day) and there was a snake coiled up in my ballet slipper and I saw it and it had those bright colours that you know that are bad, poisonous... and I saw one of the housekeepers close by... and she came up and looked at it and screamed, 'Go inside, lock the door...'
"Frogs are also poisonous over there... and there was one in Liev's shoe and he was going out running and you can't really see in a sneaker can you...? You just put it on... For probably the most masculine man... I've never heard such a girly sound."

Joined the cast of "CSI" (CBS) with a recurring four-episode arc playing a seasoned CSI veteran

Starred opposite Ben Affleck in "The Sum of All Fears," based on the Tom Clancy novels about CIA analyst Jack Ryan

Reprised role as Cotton Weary in Craven's "Scream 2"

Portrayed an astrophysicist in Barry Levinson's "Sphere"

Co-starred in John Curran's adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel "The Painted Veil"

Appeared in the action thriller "Salt," starring Angelina Jolie in the title role as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy

Starred in the HBO original movie "Lackawanna Blues" based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson autobiographical one man show

Cast alongside Seann William Scott in the sport comedy "Goon"

Made screenwriting and directing debut with "Everything Is Illuminated" about a young Jewish American man's journey to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II

Acted in the CBS TV miniseries "Buffalo Girls"

Co-starred in the futuristic thriller "Repo Men"

Raised on NYC's Lower East Side

Performed for a year at the Edinburgh Festival

Summary

Liev Schreiber was a highly respected stage and screen actor whose deep voice and serious countenance lent itself well to playing intense, dramatic roles. He came to prominence in the late 1990s after a long string of performances in indie features, and gained widespread notice as town loner and red herring Cotton Weary in Wes Craven's "Scream" (1996) and its two sequels. The exposure helped usher him into more mainstream projects, such the HBO TV movie "RKO 281" (1999), for which he played Orson Welles; the Tom Clancy adventure "The Sum of All Fears" (2002); and a four-episode arc on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS, 2000- ). Off camera, Schreiber was a Tony Award winner and veteran of numerous New York stage productions, making his directorial debut with an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything is Illuminated" (2005), proving that he possessed talents far beyond simply acting.

Education

Name

Yale University

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Friends Seminary

Hampshire College

Notes

"I remember sitting around with Parker Posey and she said to me, 'Oh you have to do this movie with me.' And I was like, 'Yeah, like every other movie I've done with you, where neither of us gets paid and we're freezing our nuts off eating fake Ritz crackers at the fake crafts service table. I'm not going to make a movie where we don't get paid again.' She was browsing through the script [for 'The Daytrippers'] but then she got a phone call and I just happened to open the script to the monologue about the man with the dog's head. And I was like, 'Oh brother, I'm going to do another movie for free.'" – Schreiber quoted in "Taking Liev," Village Voice, March 18, 1997

"I think everybody thinks they are a little weird, but some people are allowed to explore it in their work. Other people have to repress it more because of what they do, but I think everybody has that place where they think, God, I am such a geek. There's a subconscious self that feels completely isolated and completely megalomaniacal and doesn't relate to the world at all, but is constantly trying on an everyday level to be social. I think if you can appeal to that part of a person, it's the greatest thing in the world." – Schreiber to Time Out New York, July 30 - Aug. 6, 1998

"It's not the money and not the successes, although I do want all those things. At the end of the day, the measure of a person is how much they are able to give of themselves. That's how you really make your mark in the world." – Schreiber to Detour, June/July 1998

"I really love the idea of introducing to the international community an American character who breaks the mold, who is vulnerable and awkward and...looking for his roots beyond the boundaries of his own country." – Schreiber on the central character in his film "Everything Is Illuminated" to Interview magazine, November 2005

"Part of my process is to talk myself – and everyone else – out of what we are about to do. Then when all the potential disasters have been tabled, we can begin to work." – Schreiber to Los Angeles magazine, January 2009